Improvement in spool-stand ahd show-case



E. B. FBNTON a H". s. PENPIBLD.

sTooL STAND ANDYSHOW CASI-3.`

Patented July 19', 1870.

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The Schedule referred to'in these Letters Patent and making par; of thesame To all whom; it may concern .Be it known 'that we, EBEN B. FnNroNand HENRY S. PENFIELD, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and StateofIllinois, have` invented a. new and improved Gase for Silk and otherSpooled Threads; and we do hereby declarethe following to vbe affull,clear, and exact description thereof', which will enable others skilledin the art to which 4our invention appertains to make and vuse the same,reference' being had to the accompanying. drawing' forming part of thissnecicntion. l I

Figure 1 is an elevation of our improved case;

'Figure 2 is a similar view from another side; and.

Figu're'is a detached 'sectional view of the rotary case..

Similar-letters of reference indicate corresponding 4parts in theseveral figures of the drawing.

l Our invention has for its object to providea case 'for thereceptionofspooled silk and other threads, which shall exhibit, through glassplates or windows,

samples of its contents, and whichwili permit there- 'moval of the spoolor spools without opening a draw- I er or-door; and to this end,

.Our invention consists primarily in aAcase adapted for rotation `upon avertical shaft 'afxed to'a suitable stand, so constructed 'as to receivethe spools at -the ftop' and discharge them through the bottom, and4which shall exhibit through. its exterior a sa'mple of. Athesilkorthread contained in its various compartments.

`It also consists in so arranging the rotary case upon Qits base orstand as tofdischarge the spools into' a refcess orldepression formedin' any side of the stand', the other. portions of the latterpreventing' access to .the spools. f

1 It consists, lastly, in the construction and combinar l tion .ofvarious parts, as will be heieirlaftenmore?fullyl described. I f

` In the accompanying drawing- A is 4he base of the spooled thread-case,constructed in the form of a rectangular or quadrangular box,4

provided'upon one` side with a series, of drawers, B.

x Above 'the'base A is mounted, upon a .central ver.

tical shaft,vthe rotating `spool-case O, constructed either with asurface oi`1'otation, oi` with angles.

In this example of ourfinvention, the case C is made hexagonal 1n form.,l

The case is constructed with au interior casing, D,

i-shown in iig. 3, sol arranged with relation to the exterior casing asto leavea space between them, 'which l case from top to bottom, and aredesigned to receive- .the spools ot' silk or thread. l'

' The color of the silkor sample of the contents i each compartment isexhibited through a glasspla'te,

G,"let into each side of the rotary case near its buse,

as shown clearly in figs, 1 and 2. t

The compartments being lled with spools, their tops are closed by meansot' hinged covers H, to ex." clude the dirt, and to form an unbroken orornamental surface.

To remove a spool from the case, the latter is rotated until thecompartment containing the required spool is immediately above therecess I, formed in one side of the base A, :it the upper. edge, asshown in ii r. 2.

The Aoperator thenplaces his linger 4beneath the spool to bewithdrawm-lilts it slightly, and attire same time pulls ordraws ittoward the exterior ofthe case.

The lifting and drawing movement permits the bottom spool to clear theledge F, when the operator re` moves his Vhand andthe spool dropsontfo't' the compartment by its own gravity and the pressure of thoseabove it, where' more,V than one spool is contained with? in thecompartment. The next spool drops ldown upon the ledge F, where it .isarrested and held in place.

The inner edge of the exterior case is beveled outward, as will be seenby reference to iig. 3, to permit the tipping of the spool andA allow itto drop, after having cleared the ledge. Y The bevel beneath ismade`somewhat shorter than a spool, so that, when a bottom spool is removed,thel one immediately above will be guided .vertically downward upon theledge. f

4By this construction of arotary case, the spools are iled in at thetopand removed from the bottom,`a'ndI inasmuch as the width .of the glass'plates are about equal to the length of a spool, only one of the latteris exposed to the sight as a sample in each compartment, and as thesample is constantly changing by the removal of spools,l the brilliancyof' the colors, especially in silks, remains unimpaired.

'.lhe spools lcan only be removed when the case isrotated to bring thecompartments over the recess I, In all other positions they areinaccessible. The case, therefore, is so Aplaced upon a counter or tablethat 'the recess shall be upon the inside.

To facilitate the identification of4 spools the compartments may benumbered, so that-the purchaser looking at the samples upon the outsideof the case can call lor the desired spool by number,'which spool .isreadily identified and removed by the operator when the case isrotated.V

The drawers B are lintended to receive a duplicate stock. of silk orthread, and the spaces npon the exterior of the case above the glossplates or windows are designed to receive advertisements tif variouskinds.

Having thus described our invention,

What we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. A. case for Silks and other spooled threads, adapted for rotationupon at vertical shaft, which shall receive the spools at the top anddischarge them through the bottom, and which shell exhibit through itsexterior :t s zimple of the silk or thread contained in its variouscompartments, substantially as herein described, for the purposespecified.

2. A rotary case for spooled threads, so arranged' upon its base orstand as 'to discharge the spools yinto a recess or depression formed inany side of the stond, substantially as described, for 'the piirposespeciiied.

specified.

EBENE. FENTON; HENRY S. PENEIELD.

Witnesses:-

G. H. FROST,

JAMES O. SMITH.

